RALEIGH, N.C. – The Meredith Field Hockey program picked up its first win of the 2023 season 2-1 over Ferrum College Wednesday night at the Meredith Track & Field Complex.

This is the first career win for head coach Colleen Cassada who is in her second season at the helm for the Angels. It came in dramatic fashion as freshman Charlotte Dyer found the back of the net with just seven seconds remaining to play to earn the victory.

Coach Cassada post-game talked about her emotions saying, "I'm feeling a lot of things right now, excitement, happiness, exhaustion, and a little stressed still."

Once again, the Angels were challenged from the first whistle with freshman goalie, Molly Click, playing a field position and not having any substations. Click was key not only playing out of position but also helping the Angels offense later in the game giving them ideas on how to beat the Panther goal keeper.

"I'm so proud of these girls, they deserve this win today," Cassada said. "Not having any subs, index feeling like 104 degrees, they wanted it and I'm so proud of them."

The game was scoreless at the end of the first and saw Ferrum (1-1) take a 1-0 lead into the halftime break. Meredith (1-2) saw freshman Charlotte Dyer score two fourth-quarter goals to earn the win.

Dyer's first goal came just two minutes into the period. The Angels offense was knocking on the door all game setting a program record with 26 shots. The Panthers only mustered up nine shots with zero in the entire third quarter.

The fourth quarter went back and forth but the moment came for Dyer with under 30 seconds to play when the Angels defense created a turnover and a breakaway chance for the offense. Dyer found empty space sweeping around the Ferrum goalie and scored the game-winning goal for the Angels with seven seconds remaining.

"It was a nice goal, this is a good feeling," Dyer said. "We're a close-knit team so we have each other's back, we played as a team today and kept each other going throughout the game."

Cassada felt confident in her freshman coming down the field at that moment.

"I had a strong feeling it was going to go in, she had been one-on-one with that goalkeeper numerous times throughout the game and we discussed it and I just saw it coming," Cassada stated.

The Angels are back in action Saturday when they travel to Virginia Wesleyan for a noon start.